Chief secy visits Bawana power plant, bats for lowering of tariffs and looks over summer ops
6 May 2014 12:24 AM GMT
The chief secretary of Delhi S K Srivastava on Monday inspected the 1,500-MW Pragati–III Power Plant at Bawana and took stock of its summer preparation.
Delhi government on Monday said it would soon approach the Union Petroleum Ministry for facilitating gas supply to the 1,500-MW Bawana power plant built at a cost of around Rs 4,500 crore.
He was accompanied by principal secretary (power) Arun Goel and managing director of IPGCL-PPCL, Ankur Garg, besides senior officers from Delhi power companies and BHEL. Presently, Bawana power plant is not producing a single watt of power because of non-availability of gas. Chief secretary Srivastava assured that he would take up the issue of APM gas allocation with the union ministry of petroleum so that its generation costs are lowered. He also inaugurated a 66/11 KV (50 MVA) sub-station set up by Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL) at Bawana-I.
‘This new sub-station will go a considerable way in providing stable and quality power supply to residential and industrial consumers of Bawana Industrial Area. It will be a totally remotely-operated plant and will use state-of-the-art technology,’ said Praveer Sinha, CEO TPDDL during a presentation at the site.
‘Reliance Industry Limited (RIL) KG basin has stopped its operations completely since March 2013. Further, no administered price mechanism of natural gas has been allocated to this plant and as APM gas is cheaper, its availability can help in reduction of tariff,’ the chief secretary said.
Delhi government on Monday said it would soon approach the Union Petroleum Ministry for facilitating gas supply to the 1,500-MW Bawana power plant built at a cost of around Rs 4,500 crore.
He was accompanied by principal secretary (power) Arun Goel and managing director of IPGCL-PPCL, Ankur Garg, besides senior officers from Delhi power companies and BHEL. Presently, Bawana power plant is not producing a single watt of power because of non-availability of gas. Chief secretary Srivastava assured that he would take up the issue of APM gas allocation with the union ministry of petroleum so that its generation costs are lowered. He also inaugurated a 66/11 KV (50 MVA) sub-station set up by Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL) at Bawana-I.
‘This new sub-station will go a considerable way in providing stable and quality power supply to residential and industrial consumers of Bawana Industrial Area. It will be a totally remotely-operated plant and will use state-of-the-art technology,’ said Praveer Sinha, CEO TPDDL during a presentation at the site.
‘Reliance Industry Limited (RIL) KG basin has stopped its operations completely since March 2013. Further, no administered price mechanism of natural gas has been allocated to this plant and as APM gas is cheaper, its availability can help in reduction of tariff,’ the chief secretary said.
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